La cosa brutta di questo articolo è che mette assieme una serie di banalità da primini della classe (media impiegatizia) per valutare se tenere un lavoro oppure no. Una di quelle cose che se ne ha bisogno c'è da chiedersi come ti abbiano assunto in prima battuta.
La cosa agghiacciante è che nei colloqui che faccio ai "giovani" quando manifestano questo livello di banalità da libro cuore di solito li prendiamo congratulandoci tra di noi perché "sono maturi".
Mah!
Money quote: "Create a list by either writing it on a piece of paper with three columns or by putting it in a spreadsheet. The first column should be ‘Love’ and should include the things that you absolutely love doing. This can include things you currently do in your job, things you’re passionate about, and things that make you happy. The second column should be ‘Good At’ and this is a list of the things that you’re genuinely good at. Your boss, your best friend, your mom, and you all know what these things are. Go ahead and identify those traits. Finally, add a column called ‘Hate’ which includes the things that you really, really don’t want to do in life. This can be as specific or broad as you’d like."
https://hired.com/blog/candidates/5-ways-know-time-quit-job/
La cosa agghiacciante è che nei colloqui che faccio ai "giovani" quando manifestano questo livello di banalità da libro cuore di solito li prendiamo congratulandoci tra di noi perché "sono maturi".
Mah!
Money quote: "Create a list by either writing it on a piece of paper with three columns or by putting it in a spreadsheet. The first column should be ‘Love’ and should include the things that you absolutely love doing. This can include things you currently do in your job, things you’re passionate about, and things that make you happy. The second column should be ‘Good At’ and this is a list of the things that you’re genuinely good at. Your boss, your best friend, your mom, and you all know what these things are. Go ahead and identify those traits. Finally, add a column called ‘Hate’ which includes the things that you really, really don’t want to do in life. This can be as specific or broad as you’d like."
https://hired.com/blog/candidates/5-ways-know-time-quit-job/
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Io li considero prelibati. Ma a quanto pare sono molto intelligenti. Molto molto. I polipi e le piovre sono da laurea.
Money quote: "And yet . . . could we be missing something here? While they can’t see much of their own kaleidoscopic skins, they can clearly sense inside what they are doing. Remote cameras on the seabed show octopuses crackling with color changes, even when there is no other creature present to observe them. Godfrey-Smith believes this is just a byproduct of neural activity, no more than an expressive quirk. But maybe it isn’t. Perhaps they are talking to themselves"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/just-how-smart-is-an-octopus/2017/01/06/a2f1ed22-acd0-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html
Money quote: "And yet . . . could we be missing something here? While they can’t see much of their own kaleidoscopic skins, they can clearly sense inside what they are doing. Remote cameras on the seabed show octopuses crackling with color changes, even when there is no other creature present to observe them. Godfrey-Smith believes this is just a byproduct of neural activity, no more than an expressive quirk. But maybe it isn’t. Perhaps they are talking to themselves"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/just-how-smart-is-an-octopus/2017/01/06/a2f1ed22-acd0-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html
The Washington Post
Opinion | Just how smart is an octopus?
Peter Godfrey-Smith’s revelations raise questions about the creature’s consciousness.
Lo spirito indomito della Nintendo vive dentro la Switch? - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/lo-spirito-indomito-della-nintendo-vive-dentro-switch/
http://www.macitynet.it/lo-spirito-indomito-della-nintendo-vive-dentro-switch/
Macitynet.it
Lo spirito indomito della Nintendo vive dentro la Switch?
La nuova Nintendo Switch arriva tra poche settimane. Dentro Switch c'è passato, presente e futuro dell'azienda giapponese.
I Trump pensano di non ammettere più
la stampa alla Casa Bianca. Qui siamo all'anticamera del caos.
Money quote: ""There has been no decision," said Sean Spicer, Trump's incoming White House press secretary, adding "there has been some discussion about how to do it.""
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314384-trump-team-considering-evicting-press-from-white-house-report?amp
la stampa alla Casa Bianca. Qui siamo all'anticamera del caos.
Money quote: ""There has been no decision," said Sean Spicer, Trump's incoming White House press secretary, adding "there has been some discussion about how to do it.""
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314384-trump-team-considering-evicting-press-from-white-house-report?amp
TheHill
Trump team considers evicting press from White House: report
Nel 2016 è scomparso uno dei più famosi e importanti linguisti italiani, Tullio De Mauro. Due giorni fa è morto invece Zhou Youguang, linguista cinese il cui lavoro è stato fondamentale per miliardi di persone. È lui ad aver costruito il Pinyin, il sistema di trascrizione in lettere occidentali degli ideogrammi cinesi.
Zhou è stato molte altre cose (sinologo, editore, economista, per un periodo anche banchiere) in una vita che è stata non solo molto più ricca e complessa di tante altre vite, ma anche straordinariamente più lunga: è scomparso il giorno dopo aver compiuto 111 anni!
Non ho letto la sua storia altrove, quindi mi baso su Wikipedia
Money quote: “Zhou became a supercentenarian on 13 January 2016 when he reached the age of 110. He was one of the few supercentenarians known for reasons other than their longevity. Zhou died on 14 January 2017 at his home in Beijing, a day after his 111th birthday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Youguang
Zhou è stato molte altre cose (sinologo, editore, economista, per un periodo anche banchiere) in una vita che è stata non solo molto più ricca e complessa di tante altre vite, ma anche straordinariamente più lunga: è scomparso il giorno dopo aver compiuto 111 anni!
Non ho letto la sua storia altrove, quindi mi baso su Wikipedia
Money quote: “Zhou became a supercentenarian on 13 January 2016 when he reached the age of 110. He was one of the few supercentenarians known for reasons other than their longevity. Zhou died on 14 January 2017 at his home in Beijing, a day after his 111th birthday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Youguang
Wikipedia
Zhou Youguang
Zhou Youguang (Chinese: 周有光; pinyin: Zhōu Yǒuguāng, born Zhou Yaoping; 13 January 1906 – 14 January 2017), also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, linguist, sinologist, and supercentenarian. He has been credited as the father…
Forwarded from Fumettologica
«Il senatore John Lewis farebbe meglio a trascorrere più tempo aiutando il suo distretto… anziché lamentarsi inutilmente per il risultato delle elezioni.»
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/01/tweet-ostile-trump-fa-schizzare-vendite-graphic-novel/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/01/tweet-ostile-trump-fa-schizzare-vendite-graphic-novel/
Fumettologica
Un tweet ostile di Trump fa schizzare le vendite di un graphic novel
Donald Trump ha attaccato il senatore democratico John Lewis con un tweet, facendo balzare in alto le vendite dei suoi libri, tra i quali un graphic novel, March.
Amazon festeggerà 10 anni di Kindle con 5 milioni di ebook - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/amazon-al-traguardo-dei-5-milioni-ebook/
http://www.macitynet.it/amazon-al-traguardo-dei-5-milioni-ebook/
Macitynet.it
Amazon festeggerà 10 anni di Kindle con 5 milioni di ebook
A quasi dieci anni dalla nascita di Kindle Amazon ha raccolto una fetta gigantesca di mercato con cinque milioni di ebook
Non lo sapevo, ma Ben Evans (analista tra i più quotati del mercato hi-tech) è nipote dal lato materno di William Jenkins, alias Murray Leinster. Ah, poi il suo articolo dice cose condivisibili sulla (in)capacità che abbiamo avuto di predire il computer e internet. Ma questo è secondario, direi, rispetto alla scoperta della sua parentela per me, vecchio appassionato di fantascienza.
Money quote:
“In 1946, by which time he'd become a notable writer of science fiction, he published a story called 'A Logic named Joe', which described a global computer network with servers and terminals, that starts giving people the information that it thinks they ought to know as opposed to waiting for them to search for it - the Singularity, if you like, or maybe just Alexa. He also, as I recall, predicted reality TV somewhere.
And yet, despite predicting half of our world, as a father in the 1950s he could not imagine why his daughter - my mother - wanted to work.“
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/01/11/wrongquestions
Money quote:
“In 1946, by which time he'd become a notable writer of science fiction, he published a story called 'A Logic named Joe', which described a global computer network with servers and terminals, that starts giving people the information that it thinks they ought to know as opposed to waiting for them to search for it - the Singularity, if you like, or maybe just Alexa. He also, as I recall, predicted reality TV somewhere.
And yet, despite predicting half of our world, as a father in the 1950s he could not imagine why his daughter - my mother - wanted to work.“
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/01/11/wrongquestions
Benedict Evans
Asking the wrong questions — Benedict Evans
With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions about the wrong things.
Con Amazon Strike anime e cartoon giapponesi in streaming infinito - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/amazon-tutti-gli-anime-streaming-ora-solo-negli-usa/
http://www.macitynet.it/amazon-tutti-gli-anime-streaming-ora-solo-negli-usa/
Macitynet.it
Con Amazon Strike anime e cartoon giapponesi in streaming infinito
Al via Amazon Strike in USA, servizio a pagamento che offre accesso illimitato in streaming agli anime e cartoon Made in Japan
Tutti abbiamo delle cose da fare. E poi ci sono quelli che usano le liste per tenere un barlume di organizzazione delle cose da fare (ad esempio, io lo faccio). Poi ci sono quelli che fanno cose ancora molto più sofisticate.
Joe ha deciso di fare ancora qualcosa di più. Ha reso pubblica la sua to-do list. Perché così è costretto a fare una analisi differente e, in qualche modo, migliore. Pare sia stata un'ottima scelta (per lui). Boh.
Money quote: "I intended it to be a small next step in terms of transparency (there are some other steps here) – I was wrong. Following a test run I did in May ago I can honestly say that it’s been the most effective change in my productivity in at least two, possibly five years"
http://joereddington.com/6232/2016/08/26/my-to-do-list-is-now-public-and-its-the-most-useful-thing-ive-done-in-years./
Joe ha deciso di fare ancora qualcosa di più. Ha reso pubblica la sua to-do list. Perché così è costretto a fare una analisi differente e, in qualche modo, migliore. Pare sia stata un'ottima scelta (per lui). Boh.
Money quote: "I intended it to be a small next step in terms of transparency (there are some other steps here) – I was wrong. Following a test run I did in May ago I can honestly say that it’s been the most effective change in my productivity in at least two, possibly five years"
http://joereddington.com/6232/2016/08/26/my-to-do-list-is-now-public-and-its-the-most-useful-thing-ive-done-in-years./
Joe Reddington
My to-do list is now public, and it’s the most useful thing I’ve done in years.
As part of a commitment to personal transparency I’m making my personal to-do list publicly and permanently accessible here. It's real and it's active. You can access it right now and see it change over the course of the day. I intended it to be a small next…
Oggi, per chi non lo avesse notato, è il 17-1-17. Un bel numero da scrivere!
Il successo di iPhone (e tutto quel che è seguito) era inimmaginabile. È stato invece monumentale e non accenna a finire.
Celebrando i dieci anni dal primo apparecchio sono state dette molte cose. Mancava però qualcuno che sottolineasse un aspetto in particolare: il colpo mortale inflitto allo strapotere delle telco.
Money quote: "In retrospect, the ascendency of Smartphone 2.0 and the way it has shaped our culture seems obvious and natural. But the celebration and contemplation overlooks a crucial Sine Qua Non, a necessary (but not sufficient) condition: Unlocking the carriers’ grip on handset specifications, marketing, and content distribution."
https://mondaynote.com/the-iphone-unsung-sine-qua-non-b3799acb6b47#.huvv8t7ov
Celebrando i dieci anni dal primo apparecchio sono state dette molte cose. Mancava però qualcuno che sottolineasse un aspetto in particolare: il colpo mortale inflitto allo strapotere delle telco.
Money quote: "In retrospect, the ascendency of Smartphone 2.0 and the way it has shaped our culture seems obvious and natural. But the celebration and contemplation overlooks a crucial Sine Qua Non, a necessary (but not sufficient) condition: Unlocking the carriers’ grip on handset specifications, marketing, and content distribution."
https://mondaynote.com/the-iphone-unsung-sine-qua-non-b3799acb6b47#.huvv8t7ov
Monday Note
The iPhone Unsung Sine Qua Non
by Jean-Louis Gassée
Lo storico spot di Apple, “1984”, oggi compie gli anni. Storia della pubblicità che ha cambiato la storia della pubblicità. Il mio pezzo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/anniversario-1984-lo-spot-cambio-la-storia-della-pubblicita/
http://www.macitynet.it/anniversario-1984-lo-spot-cambio-la-storia-della-pubblicita/
Macitynet.it
Anniversario 1984, lo spot che cambiò la storia della pubblicità
Lo storico spot di Apple compie 33 anni: venne trasmesso una sola volta durante il Super Bowl XVIII. Così cambiò la storia della pubblicità
Gli Hacker attaccano Cellbrite e confermano i timori di Tim Cook per le backdoor su iPhone - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/gli-hacker-attaccano-cellbrite-confermano-timori-tim-cook-le-backdoor-iphone/
http://www.macitynet.it/gli-hacker-attaccano-cellbrite-confermano-timori-tim-cook-le-backdoor-iphone/
Macitynet.it
L'attacco hacker a Cellebrite conferma i timori di Tim Cook per le backdoor su iPhone
Rubata la tecnologia di forzatura dei telefoni di Cellebrite, il grimaldello per il vaso di Pandora che a suo tempo aveva penetrato l’iPhone 5C di San Bernardino. Adesso lo strumento per l’insicurezza globale è nelle mani degli hacker.
Finalmente uno standard comune!
Money quote: "Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls"
http://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/1/17/14306464/japanese-toilet-control-icons-meaning-standard
Money quote: "Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls"
http://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/1/17/14306464/japanese-toilet-control-icons-meaning-standard
The Verge
Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls
The Japan Sanitary Equipment Industry Association, a consortium of companies producing plumbing products including Toto, Panasonic, and Toshiba, has agreed to unify the iconography used on the...
Per un periodo ci avevo creduto, in Evernote. Poi ho lasciato perdere, dopo un paio di anni. Sostanzialmente per tre ragioni: le stesse funzioni erano gratuite nelle app di serie del mio iPhone; l'interfaccia era tremenda; volevo un formato aperto e più "morbido" per i dati. Non sono stato l'unico.
Too little, too late
Money quote: "The result is an app that excels at the primary purpose of a notes app on your phone: jotting down text and finding it again when you need it. Unfortunately for Evernote, capture and search are solved problems on mobile phones. Open up the free Notes app on your iPhone and you’ll find a similarly straightforward note-taking experience, complete with one-tap note creation and a prominent search bar. Capture and search have become commodities in the app world, and the price for commodity apps usually hovers around zero."
http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/17/14300782/evernote-redesign-machine-learning
Too little, too late
Money quote: "The result is an app that excels at the primary purpose of a notes app on your phone: jotting down text and finding it again when you need it. Unfortunately for Evernote, capture and search are solved problems on mobile phones. Open up the free Notes app on your iPhone and you’ll find a similarly straightforward note-taking experience, complete with one-tap note creation and a prominent search bar. Capture and search have become commodities in the app world, and the price for commodity apps usually hovers around zero."
http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/17/14300782/evernote-redesign-machine-learning
The Verge
Evernote’s redesign is too little, too late
When simplicity isn’t enough
Brutto furto di segreto industriale. Il motore closed source di uno degli ultimi browser indipendenti è stato reso pubblico.
Money quote: "An unknown third-party has leaked the source code of the old Opera Presto browser engine on GitHub, and later on Bitbucket, two services for hosting and sharing source code online. Opera Presto is the layout engine at the heart of the old Opera browser. Opera Software used Presto between Opera 7 and Opera 14 and replaced Presto with Blink, Chrome's layout engine, in Opera 15, released in May 2013. Despite its removal from the company's main product, Opera engineers continued to use Opera Presto for the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers"
http://www.slashdot.org/story/321331
Money quote: "An unknown third-party has leaked the source code of the old Opera Presto browser engine on GitHub, and later on Bitbucket, two services for hosting and sharing source code online. Opera Presto is the layout engine at the heart of the old Opera browser. Opera Software used Presto between Opera 7 and Opera 14 and replaced Presto with Blink, Chrome's layout engine, in Opera 15, released in May 2013. Despite its removal from the company's main product, Opera engineers continued to use Opera Presto for the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers"
http://www.slashdot.org/story/321331
developers.slashdot.org
Opera Presto Source Code Leaks Online - Slashdot
Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: An unknown third-party has leaked the source code of the old Opera Presto browser engine on GitHub, and later on Bitbucket, two services for hosting and sharing source code online. Opera Presto is the layout…
Forwarded from H I S T O R I A
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, prima di firmare l'embargo di Cuba, compró circa 1200 sigari cubani. #fotodelgiorno
E se fosse tutto cominciato con Friends? L'inizio della fine, intendo. C'è chi sostiene che l'anti-intellettualismo sia tutto contenuto dentro le dieci stagioni del telefilm che personalmente adoro e che ha insegnato a un'intera generazione a odiare e disprezzare i nerd (stiamo parlando di te, Ross). Un colpo micidiale e forse mortale.
Money quote: "Eventually, the Friends audience — roughly 52.5 million people — turned on Ross. But the characters of the show were pitted against him from the beginning (consider episode 1, when Joey says of Ross: “This guy says hello, I wanna kill myself.”) In fact, any time Ross would say anything about his interests, his studies, his ideas, whenever he was mid-sentence, one of his “friends” was sure to groan and say how boring Ross was, how stupid it is to be smart, and that nobody cares. Cue the laughter of the live studio audience. This gag went on, pretty much every episode, for 10 seasons. Can you blame Ross for going crazy?"
http://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2015/03/how-you-can-save-western-civilization-by-reading-true-grit/
Money quote: "Eventually, the Friends audience — roughly 52.5 million people — turned on Ross. But the characters of the show were pitted against him from the beginning (consider episode 1, when Joey says of Ross: “This guy says hello, I wanna kill myself.”) In fact, any time Ross would say anything about his interests, his studies, his ideas, whenever he was mid-sentence, one of his “friends” was sure to groan and say how boring Ross was, how stupid it is to be smart, and that nobody cares. Cue the laughter of the live studio audience. This gag went on, pretty much every episode, for 10 seasons. Can you blame Ross for going crazy?"
http://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2015/03/how-you-can-save-western-civilization-by-reading-true-grit/
D Magazine
How You Can Save Western Civilization by Reading True Grit - D Magazine
What Friends can teach us.
La nuova Leica M10 si presenta a Wetzlar: il reportage di Macitynet - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/la-nuova-leica-m10-si-presenta-wetzlar-reportage-macitynet/
http://www.macitynet.it/la-nuova-leica-m10-si-presenta-wetzlar-reportage-macitynet/
Macitynet.it
La nuova Leica M10 si presenta a Wetzlar: il reportage di Macitynet
Cosa abbiamo visto a Wetzlar durante il lancio della nuova macchina fotografica full frame della casa tedesca. Macitynet vi riporta le primissime impressioni su una fotocamera digitale che punta all'eccellenza.